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Sunday, 16 March 2014

Project U features Words And Women

Project U, organized by Unthank Books, will feature
writers from Words And Women’s first anthology of prose writing. The event will
take place this Thursday 20th March at The Garden House, 1 Pembroke
Road, Norwich. It starts at 8pm, and is free to attend! Copies of the anthology
will be on sale.

The writers reading their work will be Deborah Arnander, Judith Omasete,
Beth Settle, Kim Sherwood and Rowan Whiteside.

Deborah Arnander wrote a
brilliant review of our IWD event which is posted below.

Bethany Settle has
an MA in Creative Writing: Prose from the University of East Anglia.
She remained in Norwich, where she works at a library. Reading, writing and
nature are her top three best things. She is writer-in-residence at the Rumsey
Wells pub in Norwich, and is currently writing a novel that explores grief and
loss. Her story Pendulum is published in the anthology.

Judith
Omasete is
originally from Kenya, where she worked with International Non Governmental
Organizations, dealing with agricultural development, healthcare, education,
child welfare, micro enterprises, tourism, conservation and land tenure. Now
Judith lives in Norfolk with her family and has worked as a high school teaching
assistant for 4 years. She has run workshops in schools for Norfolk Education
Action for Development (NEAD) and is currently pursuing further education. Her
piece of creative non-fiction called My Dog Is Boss features in the anthology.

Kim
Sherwood tours
with literary salons Elbow Room and The Book Club Boutique, and has published
short stories and poetry. She completed the BA in Literature with Creative
Writing at UEA in 2011, receiving the Jarrold Prize for most outstanding
performance. She continued on to the Prose Fiction MA, and is now a fellowship
student on the Creative and Critical Writing PhD. Kim writes in
Norwich, London, Devon, and the quiet coach. She’s writing her first
novel. Her short story Quick Brown Fox features in the anthology.

Rowan Whiteside was born in Durban, South
Africa but has spent most of her life in the fine city of Norwich. She works as
Marketing Assistant for Writers’ Centre Norwich and as a bookseller for
Waterstones, where she was formerly the manager of the fiction department.
Rowan studied English and American Literature at the University of East Anglia,
where she snuck onto as many creative writing classes as possible and read a
lot of books from the Classics section. Her writing has been published online on
various sites and ‘zines. She can be found on Twitter @DilysTolfree. Her story Persephone is included in the anthology.